“MADE FOR TELEVISION.”

“If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?”

“[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. (87)”

“God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.”

“When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exist.”

“The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further. With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end.”